Securing Confidential Data in Non-Production Environments
End-to-End Data Protection for Test, Development and Outsourced Systems

While it’s true that many organizations have implemented policies and solutions, including strong password protection and firewalls, to deter and defeat breaches and to comply with regulatory requirements, their data remain a soft target for sophisticated and tenacious cyber thieves. This is particularly true when it comes to the data that organizations routinely use in their development and test environments. This webcast will discuss how you can:   Remove testing and development data from regulatory scope   Extend robust security policies to non-production environments   Accelerate testing by reducing manual, time-consuming masking processes

When it comes to data protection, most of us immediately think of customer-facing applications and production databases. Consequently, that’s where most organizations focus their attention. But what about the data used in non-production environments for application development, testing, quality assurance and training?

Learn more about solutions for protecting non-production data.

Data masking is a critical component of any comprehensive solution designed to provide end-to-end protection of sensitive data. Also referred to as “data de-identification” or “data obfuscation”, data masking is the process of de-identifying sensitive information stored in databases so that it can be used in areas without production-level security controls, such as test and development environments.

The key to effective and efficient data masking is that de-identification must be achieved while maintaining data characteristics and relationships so that data-driven applications can still run properly and test results with masked data will be valid.

You want your data masking solution to deliver the same level of protection for your non-production test and development systems as you are accustomed to expecting from the solutions that protect your production data. You also want your data masking solution to automate processes (such as sub-setting) and to enable reuse across multiple applications through a policy-driven design.

		Reduce the risk of data breaches by extending security policies across all systems, not just production systems
		Reduce audit effort and costs by eliminating test and development environments from regulatory scope
		Automate the maintenance of data referential integrity
		Increase development and testing speed, thanks to single-step, automated sub-setting and the use of ready-made application data maps for off-the-shelf and in-house applications
		Ensure strict adherence to privacy regulations such as PCI, GLBA, SOX and HIPAA/HITECH and maintain accountability through centralized control and management, enforced separation of duties, and limited access to live production data until data is masked

In this webcast you will learn exactly how Voltage SecureData™ Masking can protect confidential information in your non-production environments.

		Steve Ross Senior Product Manager Voltage Security